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VS Code supports agent workflows for repository research, edits, and tests, with local collaboration, delegated sessions, planning, and subagents.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agents/overview · as of 2026-09-23

Custom agents use .agent.md files with instructions, tools, and optional models. Workspace locations include .github/agents and .claude/agents; supported fields and behavior depend on the selected harness.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agent-customization/custom-agents · as of 2026-09-23

Copilot supports repository-wide .github/copilot-instructions.md and scoped .instructions.md files with applyTo patterns. AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md support and discovery depend on the selected harness.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agent-customization/custom-instructions · as of 2026-09-23

The Local VS Code agent still supports reusable .prompt.md slash commands. Prompt files are deprecated and not loaded in Agent Host sessions; migrate those workflows to skills before changing harness.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agent-customization/prompt-files · as of 2026-09-23

Agent Skills are an open standard using folders with SKILL.md plus optional resources. Copilot supports skills in VS Code, the CLI, and the cloud agent; project locations include .github/skills, .claude/skills, and .agents/skills.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agent-customization/agent-skills · as of 2026-09-23

The VS Code hooks experience is in preview. Local hooks can use .github/hooks/*.json and events such as PreToolUse and PostToolUse. Copilot, Claude, and other harnesses have different schemas and runtime behavior; file discovery alone does not establish compatibility.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agent-customization/hooks · as of 2026-09-23

Tool sets are reusable groups of agent tools configured through Chat: Configure Tool Sets and referenced in prompts or custom agents.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agent-customization/tool-sets · as of 2026-09-23

Copilot Plan mode researches a task and presents a plan for review before implementation. The Local agent has a separate planning workflow; plan-file location and approval controls depend on the session.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agents/run/planning · as of 2026-09-23

Subagents perform focused work in separate contexts and return results to the main agent. The Local agent uses agent/runSubagent; available tools, parallelism, and session behavior depend on the harness.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agents/run/subagents · as of 2026-09-23

The Copilot cloud agent can research a repository, plan and make code changes, and create pull requests for review. Supported entry points allow model selection and custom-agent configuration.

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/use-copilot-agents/cloud-agent · as of 2026-09-23

GitHub announced Agent HQ at Universe 2025 as a shared control surface for agents, with third-party agents planned for paid Copilot subscriptions. An announcement is not a guarantee of availability in every current plan.

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/welcome-home-agents/ · as of 2026-09-23

Claude Sonnet 5 is listed as generally available in Copilot. Actual availability depends on plan, client, and organization policy.

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/ai-models/supported-models · as of 2026-09-23

Claude Opus 4.8 is listed as generally available in Copilot. Fast-mode labeling and client availability should be checked in the supported-model table before use.

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/ai-models/supported-models · as of 2026-09-23

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is listed as generally available in Copilot; plan and client availability can differ.

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/ai-models/supported-models · as of 2026-09-23

The current Copilot table includes Claude Haiku 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and Claude Opus 4.7 as generally available. Older model names should not be assumed to remain supported.

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/ai-models/supported-models · as of 2026-09-23

Current Copilot billing uses GitHub AI credits, with one credit equal to $0.01 USD. Included allowances and per-token model prices depend on the plan; legacy premium-request multipliers are not the current budgeting model.

https://docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/github-copilot-billing · as of 2026-09-23

VS Code .vscode/mcp.json uses a servers object; the portable workspace .mcp.json uses mcpServers. Agent Host does not read .vscode/mcp.json directly, and VS Code does not forward servers that require interactive input variables to that host.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agent-customization/mcp-servers · as of 2026-09-23

The GitHub MCP server is remote at https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/ and authenticates with OAuth in VS Code — no personal access token required.

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/customizing-copilot/using-model-context-protocol/using-the-github-mcp-server · as of 2026-07-06

The Microsoft Learn MCP server is available at https://learn.microsoft.com/api/mcp over streamable HTTP, without authentication or a usage charge.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/support/mcp · as of 2026-09-23

Azure MCP Server is available through the @azure/mcp npm package and other package managers, with documented connections for VS Code, Copilot CLI, and the cloud agent.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/azure-mcp-server/get-started · as of 2026-09-23

The @playwright/mcp package exposes browser automation through structured accessibility snapshots. Its repository also describes a CLI-and-skills alternative; choose the interface appropriate to the client.

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp · as of 2026-09-23

Autonomous agents and event triggers are generally available in Copilot Studio (GA March 2025); a usage estimator arrived April 2026.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/whats-new · as of 2026-07-06

Agent-to-agent (A2A) connections are generally available in the standard Copilot Studio experience. Connecting agents in the newer GitHub Copilot harness experience is separately labeled preview.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/whats-new · as of 2026-09-23

Computer use reached general availability in Copilot Studio in May 2026. Related capabilities can have separate preview status; verify the specific hosting and tool option before a demo.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/whats-new · as of 2026-09-23

The standard Copilot Studio harness supports MCP tools and resources with generative orchestration enabled. The MCP protocol also defines prompts, but the current Copilot Studio page does not list prompts as supported.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/agent-extend-action-mcp · as of 2026-09-23

For the standard harness, agent flow actions are billed at 13 Copilot Credits per 100 actions. Licensed employee-facing use can be included under specific identity and trigger conditions; other runs consume credits.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/requirements-messages-management · as of 2026-09-23

Copilot Studio real-time agents support voice and digital messaging channels. Digital messaging is labeled preview, and deployment requires the relevant Dynamics 365 Contact Center channels and permissions.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/voice-realtime-voice-agents · as of 2026-09-23

Copilot Studio lists Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.5 Chat as generally available primary models in June 2026. Availability, geography, and the selected harness must be checked before use.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/whats-new · as of 2026-09-23

Standard-harness billing lists 2 Copilot Credits for a generative answer, 5 for an agent action, 10 for tenant graph grounding, and 13 per 100 agent flow actions. Licensing inclusions, reasoning charges, and other harnesses have separate conditions.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/requirements-messages-management · as of 2026-09-23

Copilot Studio agent evaluations are generally available; the evaluation REST API is separately labeled preview. From July 2026, new agents automatically receive a Microsoft Entra Agent ID without an environment-level opt-out.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/whats-new · as of 2026-09-23

The Copilot Studio VS Code extension is generally available for the standard harness. It supports cloning YAML agent definitions, editing locally, reviewing changes, and applying them back to an environment.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/visual-studio-code-extension-overview · as of 2026-09-23

Microsoft describes the Sales agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot as the evolution of the Copilot experience for sales teams, spanning Microsoft 365 apps and Dynamics 365 Sales.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/sales/copilot-overview · as of 2026-09-23

The Dynamics 365 Customer Service Agent reached general availability on 2026-06-30, backed by a Customer Service MCP server with more than 70 tools.

The original source returned 404 during the September 23, 2026 review. This entry retains its July review date; verify current availability before relying on it.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-service/administer/customer-service-agent · as of 2026-07-06

Dynamics 365 Sales Qualification Agent has research-only and research-and-engage modes. Research-only generates draft outreach; research-and-engage can send and follow up before handing qualified leads to sellers.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/sales/sales-qualification-agent · as of 2026-09-23

The Customer Service release overview identifies Case Management, Customer Intent, Quality Evaluation, and Customer Knowledge Management as the four AI agents that reached general availability in October 2025.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/release-plan/2026wave1/service/dynamics365-customer-service/ · as of 2026-09-23

Dynamics 365 Contact Center Customer Assist and Quality Assurance agents are generally available; a Service Operations agent is in preview (April 2026).

The original source returned 404 during the September 23, 2026 review. This entry retains its July review date; verify current availability before relying on it.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/contact-center/implement/overview-agents · as of 2026-07-06

New Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Dataverse capabilities move to the AI at Work roadmap from September 2026. Release plans are no longer being published; existing wave plans remain historical references.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/release-plans/ · as of 2026-09-23

Dataverse has a generally available /api/mcp endpoint and a separate preview endpoint. Environment enablement and allowed clients still apply; tools include search_data, metadata search, read_query, describe, record operations, and file operations.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/data-platform/data-platform-mcp-other-clients · as of 2026-09-23

The Dataverse Management MCP server reached general availability on 2026-04-30.

The original source returned 404 during the September 23, 2026 review. This entry retains its July review date; verify current availability before relying on it.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/management-mcp · as of 2026-07-06

Non-Microsoft clients can connect using the @microsoft/dataverse local proxy or a remote endpoint with a custom Entra app. The generally available endpoint is /api/mcp; --preview selects the separately enabled /api/mcp_preview endpoint.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/data-platform/data-platform-mcp-other-clients · as of 2026-09-23

Dataverse MCP tools accessed by agents outside Copilot Studio have been metered since December 15, 2025. Qualifying Dynamics 365 Premium and Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses exempt access to Dynamics 365 data, subject to the documented conditions.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/data-platform/data-platform-mcp · as of 2026-09-23

Power Fx AI functions (AISummarize, AITranslate, AIClassify, AIExtract, AIReply, AISentiment) are generally available; prompt columns are in preview (max five per table), business skills are in preview, and Dataverse-in-M365-Copilot rolled out June 2026.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/release-plan/2026wave1/data-platform/ · as of 2026-07-06

CDX was renamed MDX (Microsoft Demo eXperiences) at cdx.transform.microsoft.com; access is for Microsoft employees, Partner-Center-enrolled partners, and MVPs, with 90-day and 1-year experiences, and current experiences include M365 Copilot.

The original source returned 404 during the September 23, 2026 review. This entry retains its July review date; verify current availability before relying on it.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-demo-environment-mdx · as of 2026-07-06

Dynamics 365 Sales offers a 30-day free trial with sample data and a product tour.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/sales/sign-up-for-sales-trial · as of 2026-09-23

Sample-data paths include the built-in Install Sample Data (admin center or the InstallSampleData API), the Configuration Migration Tool (pac tool cmt), dataflows and OData, and the Web API bulk operations CreateMultiple, UpsertMultiple, and $batch.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/developer/data-platform/bulk-operations · as of 2026-07-06

The FastTrack Copilot Studio Sample Data Agent generates demo data without code and ships in the Dynamics-365-FastTrack-Implementation-Assets repository.

https://github.com/microsoft/Dynamics-365-FastTrack-Implementation-Assets · as of 2026-07-06

Work IQ debuted at Ignite 2025 as the work-signals grounding layer (emails, calendar, files, Teams messages) of the Microsoft IQ family — Work IQ, Foundry IQ, Fabric IQ, and Web IQ — surfaced in the Copilot Studio agent experience (Build 2026, preview) and in M365 Copilot; Work IQ APIs reached general availability in June 2026, with the public API surface still expanding.

https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-2025-book-of-news/ · as of 2026-07-06

M365 Copilot meeting prep drafts a brief over your own mail and calendar; Microsoft has cited a self-reported figure of roughly 90 minutes per week saved by sellers.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/ · as of 2026-07-06

The Sales agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot provides assistance across Microsoft 365 apps and Dynamics 365 Sales. Microsoft describes it as the evolving replacement for the earlier Copilot experience in Sales.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/sales/copilot-overview · as of 2026-09-23

Microsoft for Financial Services currently describes cloud infrastructure, compliance, industry guidance and accelerators, and data and AI platforms. This overview does not establish that every packaged industry solution is available or retired; check component-specific notices before promising one.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/financial-services/fsi-overview · as of 2026-09-23

Agent 365, a governance control plane for agents, was announced at Ignite 2025 alongside Entra Agent ID, which gives agents first-class identities.

https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-2025-book-of-news/ · as of 2026-07-06

The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) has applied since 2025-01-17; Purview Compliance Manager provides DORA assessment templates, and Microsoft offers a financial-services contractual amendment.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/trust-center/compliance/dora · as of 2026-07-06

Public financial-services references include Investec (Copilot for Sales, a self-reported ~200 hours per banker per year), Lloyds (30,000 Copilot users), ABN AMRO (Copilot Studio, 3.5M+ conversations), and Morningstar (MCP with Copilot Studio).

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/customers/ · as of 2026-07-06

MSX ('Microsoft Sellers Experience') is Microsoft's internal seller CRM, built on Dynamics 365, per a Microsoft-authored paper.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04732 · as of 2026-07-06

MSX Copilot was released in July 2023.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04732 · as of 2026-07-06

Microsoft sellers have historically worked across MSX, Dynamics 365, Outlook, and Teams.

https://www.microsoft.com/insidetrack/blog/ · as of 2026-07-06

MSX Insights is described as the business-intelligence layer on Microsoft Fabric, with a reported 40,000+ users.

https://www.microsoft.com/insidetrack/blog/ · as of 2026-07-06

A Daily Recommender is described as surfacing next-best actions to sellers in MSX.

https://www.microsoft.com/insidetrack/blog/ · as of 2026-07-06

MSX's internal architecture, entity model, and modules are not publicly documented; only the facts above are public.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04732 · as of 2026-07-06